Visit the Dr. Bhau Daji Lad Museum via this Photo Gallery!

Museum objects are time machines. They allow us a peek into a civilization long past or bring us close to today’s issues. Mumbai: A City through Objects tells the story of a city through unique objects in the collection of the Dr. Bhau Daji Lad Museum, the erstwhile Victoria and Albert Museum, Bombay.

Witness some stunning artefacts from the museum in this photo gallery!

The Byculla Club, Cecil Burns; print. S. Sheppard. The Byculla Club, 1833-1916, A History, 1916, Bombay.

Landing Ice at Bombay; engraving, J.I.V. The Graphic, volume XVIII, no. 466, November 2, 1878, Bombay. Accessioned: 2014.

The Exodus from Bombay, Amedee Forestier; offset print, 1897, Bombay. Accessioned: 2013.

Red, Blue, and White, Lotus of Hindostan, coloured plate, James Forbes, Oriental Memoirs: A Narrative of Seventeen Years Residence in India, Vol III, London: White, Cochrane, and Co., 1813. Accessioned: early twentieth century.

Bombay Servants; reproduction of a hand-coloured photograph, FM Coleman, Typical Pictures of Indian Natives, Bombay: The Times of India Press, 1899. Accessioned: 2013.

There Comes Papa, Raja Ravi Varma; oil on canvas, 1893, Trivandrum. Courtesy: Travancore Royal Family, Kowdiar Palace, Thiruvananthapuram.

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